Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-20
FAIRMONT.
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sDe,,al TLeqraH 10 he Sunday Register.
FAIRMoNr, February IA temper
auce mass meeting was held in the Court
House last night, TO nominate candidates
for town officers. The following ticket
WAS elected: For Mayor, c. j. Corhin;
Recorder, Capt. Z. A. Billingslea; C"un,
ell, T. B. Carpenter, J. NJ. Hartley, DR..
". C. Jamison, Israel Forman and 4. Z.
Kerr. An Executive Committee, con
sisting of the following persons, was ap-
pointed: A. J.. Stone, Chairman; Alex.
Rose, B. F. Reed, G. W Price, w. /.
Menear, d w. Brodie, o. j. Fleming,
and W. f. Hough. The temperance peo-
ple are in earnest this year, and propose
TO do away with the saloons, il possible.
The action of the Legislature in submit
ting the prohibition resolution to the peo'
ple is generally regarded with favor here.
This county seems TO he about equally
divided on the question, but We none oil
us objected seriously to submission.
We are to have another good show here
next Tuesday night at the rink. Frank
Davidson and his company will give Hans,
the German Detective, to n full house.
The play is q good one and the company IS
reported strong.
That genial and jolly miller, James
Steele, of Nuzum's Mills, was IN town
yesterday on business.
John Maxwell, Jr., who was recently
released from the penitentiary, was arrested
last week and confined in the Jail on a
charge of lunacy. He has somewhat i'm
proved Of late aud will probably h ercleaSed
In course of a few days.
This family of J. W. Burns, formerly OF
this place, departed on Sunday last for
Fresno county, California, where they will
reside in future. Mr.. Burns had preceded
them for some weeks aud has located per
manently in the Golden State.
Candidates bloom always before the
peach trees. Numerous persons are d.
ready suggested for County superintendent
of Schools. We molly heed one this year,
but "A good crop of candidates always in
sures a good selection i'll affairs OF this
sort.
Charles Powell, Esq, of this place, has
passed the ntttSNiiy SAa'h'ba''o" 'nN 80
now a ll-hedged limb of the law. lie Is
"a reliable and competent Young man and
will make a good lawyer.
Conductor X. ID. Walker is again at his
post OF duty on the F., NJ. N p, he having
sufficiently recovered from his rheumatism
to resume work.
. The entertainment given by the Moss
family at the rink last night was a decided
success. None Of these celebrities has
lost anything in the way of musical ac-
complishments since they were last here.
A crowded house will greet them tonight.
The mining. or rather the coke industry,
is in a fair way la secure n decided boom
h%ereabouts. Since the sale OF gas coal for
consumption in the East has dwindled 10
nothing the operators are looking to coke
as their only salvation. The Montana
Company, composed of James .. and j.
Ed. Watson, Judge Fleming, cx-Sheriif
Carney and some Eastern gentlemen, led
off i'm the business and built u number oi
ovens last fall. They made and shipped
coke all through the winter and II has
proven 10 he of such superior quality as to
create quite Il demand Tor fairm0nt
coke. The Montana will greet addi-
tional ovens soons, We learn, and the new
Aurora mine will also build some ovens
soon. These mines are on the right least
side of the river on the line of the F., Nj. "
T.. road and the coal is said to he superior
TO that mined on this side of the river for
purposes of coke manufacture. There IL
limit 10 the field and a short time will
see such developments ~ was never seen
in this country before. With a competing
railroad up the M~onongahcla valley, land
are going 10 yet it soon this region
would at once become a successful rival to
The Connellsvillc region, and with the pre-
sent prospects for such a road there IL no
more inviting field than this in the world
capitalists who are willing to develop
Iich territory. Nine or ten feet of good
roal, free from sulphur and other impnri-
and easily mined il certainly Il bonanza